Benchmark Literacy

Reading

*Phonics

*Fluency

*Accuracy and Rate

*Comprehension Skills: visualizing, main idea and detail, asking questions, sequencing, inferencing, summarizing, predicting, analyzing character traits, story elements

Spelling

*Weekly spelling tests (list and dictation)

*Phonics based spelling words and high frequency words

Grammar

*capitalization, types of sentences, punctuation, nouns, pronouns, verbs/adverbs, adjectives

Writing

*Personal Narrative

*Opinion

*Informational/Research

Bridges

*Fact Fluency (+/- to 20)

*Adding and Subtracting to 1,000

*Telling time to the 5 minutes

*Adding coins

*Measuring

*Fractions

*Geometry

*Problem Solving

*Beginning multiplication and division

Mystery Science

*Matter

*Plants/Animals

*Landforms

*Engineering